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Old October 3rd, 2022, 10:45 AM
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Default Re: Promotions?

Special battles come up now and then.

You get better VP from them, if you win, or the ratio for a decisive battle is lower. You don't get any chance to repair or refit any units though beforehand.

It is an extra battle, over the 20 or 40 or whatever you assigned at the campaign start.

I just decline these special battles, even if the core isnt too badly bent.

The A0 does not get especially promoted - maybe SSI originally planned to do this for the SP DOS games (they had fields in there for "reputation" IIRC, not used by anything and we probably have used the bytes for something else.) The game does silently promote the rank of leader (0) units, e.g. a sniper sergeant may end up as a captain, but the rank itself is not really reflective of much other than that he is a veteran, as is more clearly shown by his experience status badge.

About the only way to do what you propose would likely be have the A0 changed to a tank unit and get him stuck into the general combat and rack up the kills without ever dying (since dead A0 is end of campaign).
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